Word: coutard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Truffaut makes clear that the war brought to an end the world that Jules, Jim and Catherine knew. All at once, the radiance and airiness of the film's first half make sense. Cinematographer Raoul Coutard's camera captures inhumanly beautiful scenes. The screen is so luminous that at times one is almost blinded by it. Coutard has a feel for the way that summer shirts and the use of a hand-held camera accentuates the kinetic quality of bohemian life. Suddenly, the sunlit beauty of the movie's first section seems elegiac; the world the film portrays...